Archive

At the begin­ning of March, the Malmö Art Muse­um com­mem­o­rat­ed impris­oned female jour­nal­ists from Belarus as part of the Echo­ing the Voic­es of Women action. With the sup­port of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists, Malmö PEN told the sto­ry of nine media women who are cur­rent­ly impris­oned and also read quotes from the final state­ment […]

Jour­nal­ist and human rights activist Uladz­imir Khilmanovich has been accused of pro­mot­ing extrem­ist activ­i­ty. He was sum­moned to Hrod­na Region­al Depart­ment of the Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee.

The edi­tor of the inde­pen­dent web­site Orsha.eu has been accused of pro­mot­ing extrem­ist activ­i­ties and insult­ing Ali­ak­san­dr Lukashen­ka. The Inves­tiga­tive Com­mit­tee has ini­ti­at­ed spe­cial pro­ceed­ings against him. The accu­sa­tion was report­ed on March 14 by the telegram chan­nel Spe­cial Pro­ceed­ings. Offi­cial­ly.

The for­mer head of the inde­pen­dent TV chan­nel report­ed this on her Face­book page.

The prosecutor’s office of the Per­shamais­ki Dis­trict of Min­sk filed a claim for liq­ui­da­tion of Bela­PAN. The eco­nom­ic court sat­is­fied it. The deci­sion has already come into force.

Agniesz­ka Romaszews­ka-Guzy, Direc­tor of Bel­sat, stat­ed that the TV channel’s bud­get was reduced by almost 50%. She empha­sized that no insti­tu­tion could endure such a sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tion.

The Min­istry of Infor­ma­tion has updat­ed the Nation­al List of Extrem­ist Mate­ri­als, and Ihar Tyshke­vich’s blog on Telegram was added to the list by the Court of Baranavichy Dis­trict and Baranavichy City on March 1, 2024.

The tri­al of free­lance video­g­ra­ph­er Andrei Tolchyn began today at Homel Region­al Court. Tolchyn has been in cus­tody for over five months and faces charges under three arti­cles of the Crim­i­nal Code.

The court hearing will start at 10 a.m. in Minsk City Court. Judge Siarhei Katsar will preside over the case. Ihar Karnei is accused of participating in an extremist formation and faces up to six years of imprisonment.  

Wars are now fought live. Satellites record troop movements. Drone cameras see the enemy. Radars warn of another bomber takeoff. But the main nerve, terror, and sometimes joy are still captured by journalists. Photos from Bucha, Kherson, and Dnipro often say more than thousands of texts. A photo exhibition organized by BAJ and the Lithuanian Union of Journalists opened in Vilnius on the anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Andrei Aleksandrovich, chief editor of the Belorusy i Rynok newspaper and a journalist who joined the media force at the beginning of the formation of the new independent Belarusian journalism, died prematurely in Warsaw at the age of 49.

The Prosecutor General’s Office has sent the criminal case of Pavel Marynich, the head of Malanka Media, for trial. Pavel Liber, the creator of the digital platform ‘New Belarus,’ politician Aliaksandr Dabravolski, and Alena Zhyvahlod, the head of the initiative ‘Honest People,’ are also being investigated as part of this case. The defendants are accused of obstructing the work of the Central Election Commission and the Referendum Commission.